Stand-Up Comedy by Robin Williams
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Robin Williams is said to have been born on Saturday 21 July 1951 and to have died on Monday 11 August 2014, at the age of 63 years and 21 days.
Stand-Up Comedy by Robin Williams sorted by Laugh-o-meter (descending)
Robin Williams was credited as
writer and
actor in the following stand-up comedy set.
At the time, he would have been about
50 years old.
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway
2002 |
USA | Laughs: 5.0 (Watch Once) |
imdb: 8.5
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A lot of people love Robin Williams. He has amazing powers, but that doesn't mean I have to laugh at his stand-up comedy. For the first half hour of this show, I thought he was horrible. By the end of the show, he had done a handful of brilliant bits that made it all worthwhile.
Overall, I found him really vulgar, and not because of the language. Don't look to Williams for new perspective. This is not someone showing you a new way of looking at the world, but someone who make fun of people, often with amazingly cheap shots, as in the bit about Michael Jackson. If you want to understand the first part of the show, you'd have to subscribe to
People Magazine: Williams spends a lot of time making fun of people I've never heard of. As time passes, these people will become more and more obscure. This gives the show a very short "best-by date", unlike the shows of people who address universal topics, such as
Carlin and
Seinfeld.
But Robin is fabulous with several accents, particularly the French accent (the show's best line: "Look…I'm giving a cigarette to a baby"). His segment about the countries that have the atomic bomb lets him showcase his accents, and it made me laugh. I also loved the part where Williams plays a Scottish man explaining the game of golf—it's five-star stuff, for the archives. Last, there was a passage about religions, straight out of
Eddie Izzard. It made me wonder if Izzard ghost-wrote that piece, as I read on Izzard's site that Williams promoted his
Dress to Kill show in the United States.
(Last viewed: September 2010)
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Robin Williams was credited as
writer and
actor in the following stand-up comedy set.
At the time, he would have been about
26 years old.
Robin Williams: Off the Wall
1978 |
USA | Laughs: 0.2 (Just Awful) |
imdb: 8.1
Very loud, very frantic, very unfunny. I know everyone's supposed to love Robin Williams, but to me this set is garbage. The man's utter lack of sense of timing could be a side-effect of the coke—it's no coincidence that the shot of Robin walking to the stage shows him rubbing his nose. Maybe this indigestible material was always meant to be performed to drunks or people on drugs. For me stand-up comedy works when the comedian manages to create some degree of empathy or rapport with the audience. It's hard to have any empathy when the comedian is behaving like a crazed monkey.
(Last viewed: November 2018)
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